I had the privledge of hanging out with my grandpa as a boy watching him shoot his traditional bows he made and smelling the pipe smoke out of briar pipes that he made. He had a handful of friends hanging around shooting and smoking their pipes.
Anyone got vintage pictures of pipesmokers/shooters....the cool thing about this topic is the awesome unique man made wood projects....it always amazed me how relaxed they were shooting and later sharing the campfire....
I don't have any vintage pictures. But I'm sure I can find one of me smoking my pipe and shooting my bow. I have made a few pipes but I'm not very good at it. Yet.
No vintage pictures here but I like the occasional packed pipe.
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and a few friends
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Careful with those pipes. My brother tried to shoot his neighbors cat one day. His upper plate flew farther than the arrow, minus one of teeth. Served him right.
I don't shoot with my pipe in my mouth. For fear of that very reason.
That's why my bow is not in my hands. I would be in trouble if game actually walked in front of me. lol
FYI, that's what happens when you try to shoot neighbors cats. I have a cat here you can shoot though and you can keep your teeth.
Nothing like a pipe of Captain Black to relax!
I love ol Vanilla Cavendish in mine its my favorite. But I've got some apple and some cherry walut that I like a lot too.
Love a pipeful - but NEVER when bowhunting.
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Pipeworks & Wilke High Hat tobacco is my favorite.
Quit a few years back but a couple of ole pics's, Miss it sometimes.
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I can't believe it, but I think October will mark two years since I lit up my Savanelli Churchwarden. Me thinks I should work on fixing that!
Thom
I quit smoking, but I still chew tobacco. My favorite thing while sitting in the mountains is my little silver flask filled with something warm of course it's usually not full when I leave :D But I quit that to :rolleyes: as far as my wife knows.....
I quit the chew, for now, and am right now puffing on my meerschaum loaded with Dunhill Morning pipe. The appropriate company when watching Sherlock Holmes. I expect my corncob will be the appropriate company while waiting for that ten pointer to show up.
What are some of the less harsh pipe tobaccos? Every one I have tried has had a bad bite on my tongue. I am looking for a really mild tobacco?
Smokers pride vanilla. Is mild. And captain black in the white packages
Interesting thread . Go to JW Boswell's site on the inernet and check out Piper's Choice, and Sweet and Mild. You will not find better.
Stringstretcher, Try some Lane limited 1Q. 1Q is a very popular blend I think you will find to be mild.
Quite often the bite on the tongue is caused by the sugar that is in the blend, it burns hot and is quite often responsible for dehydrating the tongue. Even high grade flavored tobacco can be like that, it may start out with lots of flaavor and seem mild, but it will eventually bite you in the tongue. Oddly enough good old Prince Albert if not over stoked is easy on the palate. If you don't want your tongue to light up,stay away from flavored Virginia tobacco blends. As an example, never mix Amphora with RC cola.
I have several old pipes that were my Gramp's. One has a bowl carved like an Indian head, he bought back in the mid 30's. I might just have to put down my Kuba Kuba cigar and get some 'bacco and try her out, in memory of Gramps!
I smoke a pipe all the time,should quit but its the only vice I have left. Sir Walter Raleigh always Don't smoke when I'm hunting without great precaution.
I like to mix Captain Black vanilla with Captain Black Cherry, makes a nice smoke. I like a pipe full but really enjoy a Rockey Patel cigar. Get a box a month in the mail.
I have many pipes but only smoke when out in the wilds ... camping and hunting or fishing. When I was young, I smoked all the "nice smelling" tobaccos like Sail and Amphora but gradually moved to Dunhill blends and have used nothing else for the last 25 or 30 years. My favorite is Early Morning Pipe.
Mike
I used to mix Black Cavendish and Burley nice flavor and mellow very little tongue bite. You guys making me miss it, this November 3 years without a bowl.
I love a nice english. I've never had a pipe out bowhunting but I have plenty of times in the duck blind. McClelland's 5100 straight VA with a year in the cellar is tops if you don't let it overheat!
Been smoking a pipe since I was in High School (always the legal stuff). The off the shelf blends never really did it for me...although when I run out, borkum riff black cherry would have to suffice. There is a place back home that will ship tobacco anywhere and they have a nice variety of blends. PM me for their info (dont want to get yelled at for posting it here) I'll even give ya a list of the tobacco I've used of theirs.
I don't know about flavor, I just smoke to look cool. :confused: :biglaugh:
Interesting observation. Most of the trad shooters I knew as a kid also smoked a pipe. I did myself for a long time.
yeah in the Bowhunters Den book there are some cool old pictures of trad bowhunters smoking a pipe.... the best one was Grover Gouthier
Puff 'em if ya got 'em! :bigsmyl:
In our Shrew Haven deer camp the pipes and a couple cigars come out after supper to be enjoyed along with a glass of scotch or bourbon. A couple of the guys leave their pipes right in camp because that's the only time that they smoke.
I started smoking corn cob pipes loaded with corn silk when I was a young lad. Next came Yellow Bowl pipes loaded with Prince Albert. Then later when I became a little more sophisticated I smoked KayWoodie pipes and Mixture 79 tobacco.
Now I only smoke a pipe during hunting season and especially around a campfire. I get my favorite blend from a tobacco shop that I've been buying from since the early 1960's
Here's a picture of me from those younger days with my pipe.
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Below is a picture of Ernest Hemmingway who was an avid pipe smoker, without his pipe ....notice the resemblance?.. :rolleyes: ... :D
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No. :laughing:
To tell the truth, I thought the first picture was Hemingway at first glance.
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Something for pipe smokers to read
http://www.pbgeorge.com/page100.html
ME TOO !!! I keep my pipes at my hunting camp in Upper PA . I only smoke any more when hunting or at Denton Hill in the summer.
I'll try to find some old pics
Special Whiskey blend that a local Tobacconist carries ! YUM
Erinmore mixture is one of my favorites. Never tried the dunhill stuff. Some of it gets pricy for an everyday pipe smoker
from your above article Mr. LaClairPipe... smokers are generally viewed as thoughtful, reliable and relaxed
Think of all the pipe smokers who lived to be in their 90'a.... President Reagan, President Ford to name a few....stress release
Great pics guys. Hey, dumb question here, but would pipe smoke spook deer or hogs? I haven't thought of smoking while sitting in the blind, but if I could...... extra fun!! I'm gonna be upwind anyway, right? I do not mean to hijack, disregard if inappropriate. Thanks
Now really, pipe smokers relaxed and reliable? I have had one time that someone picked on me for my pipe smoking, a young punk with a paint ball gun, by a local fishing sand pit. He first mocked me and then in jest shot at me with his paint ball gun and hit a five year old boy that was fishing with his dad. He did not see my sling shot, but his declaration of being a minor was of no use to him. I proved to him three times that I did not care how old he was. Paint ball hits are painful,especially to a little boy, but sling shot hits puts a mouthy punk on the ground, funny thing was he had three buddies that knew better than to help him, even after I stomped his paint ball gun to pieces.
I have a number of expensive pipes, I smoke high grade very good pipe tobacco, I do not inhale and I am thoughtful, relaxed and reliable (with a sling shot).
Gave up the pipe when became a dad - found I couldn't handle a daughter, a diaper, and maintain a pipe at the same time. I never tried to smoke while shooting!
Best quote I remember from a college professor "A pipe gives a wise man time to think, and a fool something to do with his hands."
I agree that we should avoid the 'flavored' blends (like Cherry Blend) because they burn hot. But if your pipe burns your mouth it probably needs to be cleaned -- good pipe cleaners and either something you get at a pipe shop (an alcohol mixture) or you can make your own with whiskey, Irish whiskey, Scotch, etc. But get the gunk out of the stem and the shank. It will taste better for that. A clean pipe is a happy smoker. (Except for a 13 year hiatus, I've been doing this since 1962). I'm no longer allowed to smoke in the house.
Richard
Have any of you ever made your own pipe from deer antler? Saw an interesting video on YouTube about one. Looked great just wondering if any of our fellow tradgangers have advice on building one.
Go to a pipe tobacco store, they should have explanations/descriptions of the blend on the jar. I like a blend of black cavendish and golden cavendish with just a little bit of virginia burley mixed in. That bite on the tongue can also come from a dirty pipe. I clean and scrape mine regularly.
Make my own briars and would not go hunting or fishing withouy them. Tryed everything to get rid of the dreaded tonque bite till I realized that tobacco with high amounts of virginias burn me up.I may draw heavier or my ph is different but I really enjoy Stokkebyes english and balkan and have cured the bite. I surely enjoy a pipe full with a hunting buddy or in my quiet time.Trad hunting and wood/cob pipes go together just look at the old pictures!
Ken is that WAR DOG?
yes sir it is Joe!
I take up the hobby on occasion, mostly in the summer months. I've been avoiding it during hunting season.
I know of some cigarette smokers that hunt successfully. Is anyone out there having successful hunting while pipe smoking? It sure is tempting when sitting for long hours in the woods. Also it would tell you all about the wind currents!